Population Health

Pamela Garmon Johnson, VP of health equity and national partnerships at the American Heart Association, explains how the AHA is addressing social determinants of health, gaps in care and the health of underserved populations.

Aakash Ganju, MD, CEO of Saathealth, says consumers from all over the world are used to choice and autonomy on their phones, and there's an opportunity to apply that mindset to managing healthcare.

Claus Torp Jensen, who comes to Memorial Sloan Kettering after holding positions at CVS Health/Aetna and IBM, will also serve as head of technology for the hospital.

Dame Fiona Caldicott, national data guardian for health and social care in England, discusses the importance of building trust when using patient data to improve the health and care of citizens.

The pioneering CIO and longtime health IT evangelist, now Harvard's globe-trotting International Healthcare Innovation Professor, talks about what's next in emerging trends – and offers travel tips learned from 400,000 air miles each year.

California is pushing new analytics initiatives to improve population health, says Michael Wilkening, special advisor on innovation and digital services to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Margaret Laws, president and CEO of the social innovation lab, offers a preview of her keynote address at the upcoming HIMSS Connected Health Conference, discussing the kinds of tools these young people want – and healthcare organizations would be wise to adopt.

At the Connected Health Conference in Boston next week, the patient advocacy group celebrates a decade spent changing the conversation about how technology-enabled care is delivered.